Quotations
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet” [Aristophanes]
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave” [Lord Henry Brougham speech to the House of Commons]
“To live for a time close to great minds is the best education” [John Buchan Memory Hold the Door]
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another” [G.K. Chesterton]
“‘Tis education forms the common mind,”
“Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined” [Alexander Pope Epistles to Several Persons]
“Education is something that tempers the young and consoles the old, gives wealth to the poor and adorns the rich” [Diogenes (The Cynic)]
“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten” [B.F. Skinner Education in 1984]
“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul” [Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]
“When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family” [Charles D. McIver]
“education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding” [Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary]
“Man is the only creature which must be educated” [Immanuel Kant]
Education terms
A bursary (N.Z.), academic, accredit (N.Z.), accumulation, Advanced level or A level (Brit.), adviser or advisor (Brit.), advisory teacher (Brit.), aegrotat (Brit.), alumnus or alumna (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), assignment, assistant (U.S. & Canad.), associate (U.S. & Canad.), baccalaureate, banding (Brit.), battels (Brit.), B bursary (N.Z.), bedder (Brit.), binary, boarder (Brit.), boarding house (Austral.), bubs grade (Austral. & N.Z. slang), bursar, bursarial, bursary or bursarship (Scot. & N.Z.), campus, campus university, catalogue (U.S. & Canad.), catchment (Brit.), Certificate of Pre-vocational Education or CPVE (Brit.), Certificate of Proficiency or COP (N.Z.), chancellor (Brit., U.S., & Canad.), chapterhouse (U.S.), class, classmate, classroom, co-ed (U.S.), coeducation, collegial, collegian, collegiate, comedown (Brit.), commencement (U.S. & Canad.), commoner (Brit.), Common Entrance (Brit.), conductive education, congregation (chiefly Brit.), continuous assessment, convocation, core subjects (Brit.), coursework, crammer, credit, crib (Brit.), cross-curricular (Brit.), Cuisenaire rod (trademark), curricular, curriculum, dean, deanery, degree, delegacy, department, detention, dissertation, docent (U.S.), dominie (Scot.), don (Brit.), donnish, dropout, dunce, dunce cap, dux, Easter term, educate, education, educational, eleven-plus (obsolete), emeritus, entry, essay, examination or exam, exercise, exhibition (Brit. & Austral.), exhibitioner (Brit.), expel, extension, external, extracurricular, extramural, faculty, fail, family grouping or vertical grouping, federal, fellow, fellowship, ferule, flunk (chiefly U.S., Canad., & N.Z. informal), fresher or freshman, full professor (U.S. & Canad.), further education (Brit.), gaudy (Brit.), General Certificate of Education or GCE (Brit.), General Certificate of Secondary Education or GCSE (Brit.), gown, grade (U.S. & Canad.), graded post (Brit.), graduand (chiefly Brit.), graduate (Brit., U.S., & Canad.), graduation, grant, grant-in-aid, grant-maintained, Great Public Schools or GPS (Austral.), Greats (Brit.), gymnasium, hall, hall of residence, headmaster or headmistress, headmastership or headmistress-ship, headship (Brit.), higher (Scot.), high school, Hilary term, homework, honours or (U.S.) honors, hood, hooky or hookey (chiefly U.S., Canad., & N.Z. informal), house, housefather, housemaster, housemother, imposition (Brit.), incept (Brit.), infant (Brit.), in residence, instructor (U.S. & Canad.), internal, interscholastic, intramural (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), invigilate (Brit.), invigilator (Brit.), janitor (Scot.), jig (Austral. slang), junior, junior common room, key stage (Brit.), lecture, lecturer, level of attainment (Brit.), liaison officer (N.Z.), lines, literae humaniores (Brit.), LMS or local management of schools (Brit.), local examinations, lowerclassman (U.S.), lower school, lycée (chiefly French), manciple, marking, master, matriculate, matriculation or matric, mature student, Michaelmas term, middle common room, midterm, mistress, mitch or mich (dialect), mocks (informal), moderator (Brit. & N.Z.), muck-up day (Austral. slang), National Curriculum (Brit.), Nuffield teaching project (Brit.), open learning, Ordinary grade or O grade (Scot.), Ordinary level or O level (Brit.), Ordinary National Certificate or ONC (Brit.), pandy (chiefly Scot. & Irish), parent teacher association or PTA, parietal (U.S.), pass, pedant (archaic), pipe (U.S. slang), porter, postgraduate, prefect (Brit.), prelims (Scot.), prepositor (Brit., rare), primers (N.Z. informal), principal, Privatdocent, proctor (U.S.), professor, professoriate, prospectus, provost, punishment exercise, reader (chiefly Brit.), readership (chiefly Brit.), reception (Brit.), recess (U.S. & Canad.), record of achievement (Brit.), recreation, rector (chiefly Brit.), redbrick (Brit.), refresher course, regent, registrar, Regius professor (Brit.), remedial, remove (Brit.), report (Brit.), resit, rusticate (Brit.), sabbatical, sandwich course, SCE or Scottish Certificate of Education, scholastic, School Certificate (Brit. old-fashioned & N.Z.), schoolleaver, schoolman, schoolmarm, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, schoolteacher, second (Brit.), self-educated, semester (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), seminar, senate, send down, senior, senior common room, session, set, shell (Brit.), sixth form (Brit.), sixth-form college (Brit.), sizar (Brit.), sophomore (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), sorority (chiefly U.S.), speech day (Brit.), sports day (Brit.), stage, Standard Grade (Scot.), standard assessment tasks or SATS (Brit.), statement (Brit.), stream (Brit.), student teacher, subject, subprincipal, summa cum laude, summative assessment (Brit.), supervisor, teach-in, term, tertiary bursary (Brit.), test, thesis, transcript (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), transfer, trimester (chiefly U.S. & Canad.), Trinity term, truant, tuition, tutee, tutor, tutorial, tutorial system, union, university entrance (examination) or UE (N.Z.), undergraduate, unstreamed (Brit.), upper school, vice chancellor (Brit.), visiting professor, wag (slang), warden (Brit.), wrangler (Brit.), year
